Eschews Define Quotes

Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue. ~ Debasish Mridha

After a deep silence, mingled with sweet dreams, I asked, "Speak to me of that beauty which the people interpret and define, each one according to his own conception; I have seen her honoured and worshipped in different ways and manners."
She answered, "Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive. When you meet Beauty, you feel that the hands deep within your inner self are stretched forth to bring her into the domain of your heart. It is the magnificence combined of sorrow and joy; it is the Unseen which you see, and the Vague which you understand, and the Mute which you hear−−it is the Holy of Holies that begins in yourself and ends vastly beyond your earthly imagination. ~ Kahlil Gibran

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a like, by a comment. That does not define you. ~ Selena Gomez

We both have roles to play, roles that were handed to us. But they don't have to define us. And they don't have to contain us. ~ Karina Halle

We learned to turn inward to a place where we were able to re-define what was happening to us. In this mental space, we were able to color our experience with childhood reasoning or bury it deeply ~ Jeanne McElvaney

Never let others define who you are because most are still trying to figure out who they are. ~ Rodney Walker

Never. Never again would he allow any other man to define him, set his course. ~ Alexandra Bracken

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. ~ Brene Brown

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling ~ Bob Hoskins

Everything is nothing to an individual until they recognize and define it to be something. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated ~ Gayle Forman

The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506) ~ Nalini Singh

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. ~ Hill Harper

Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Have you ever been in love? It's a question you're asked a lot as a kid from your friends, adults, anyone. They're curious. How do you know you're in love? Do we even really know what love means? It's just a word to define a feeling. ~ Shey Stahl

Every book changes you in some way, whether it's your perspective on the world or how you define yourself in relation to the world. ~ Mindy Mejia

You need others to define who you are ~ Ela Crain

I think a person can do one of two things in life ... make your own choices despite the past or let your past make your choices for you. Very few poeple go through life completely untouched by something bad. It's just up to the individual on how much of that bad you want to define who you are where it should be that YOU define who you are. ~ Carroll Bryant

Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ. ~ Jonah Books.com

Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It's really just shutting out the noise. ~ Laurel Holloman

Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not. ~ Donna Tartt

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently. ~ Mattie Stepanek

In all aspects of life ... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor. ~ George Lakoff

It reminded me of a time when I rejoiced in my magick. When it did not define me, but was defined by me. ~ Hollow Ryan

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow. ~ Frank Herbert

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness. ~ Simon Cowell

I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define. ~ Margaret Atwood

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are. ~ Loretta Lynch

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality. ~ Thomas Moore

The color of your eyes doesn't define you. Remember that, King. ~ Donna Grant

Which meant she might as well return to a topic no man would ever bore of.Sex. "That concludes my overall dissertation on bedside manners before and after an encounter. Moving on to the last topic evolving around the setting of the bedroom. Would ine of yoy please define the purpose of a dildo and why a man should consider keeping one at his bedside at all times? ~ Delilah Marvelle

No one - not a conservative or liberal or whatever - can stand back and 'define' what marriage means. Other people's marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children. ~ Kurt Eichenwald

This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful. ~ Elizabeth Janeway